If you've read my facebook you would know all about our trip to Buenos Aires. Fantásitco! This city is huge and full of beautiful plazas, gente, and historia. We left on Thursday night for an overnight bus ride to the city. Rinna, Dories, and I got the best seats on the second floor of the colectivo in the very back with the most room to sleep. We arrived at our hotel the next morning, Hotel Apart Congreso. I would recommend this hotel because the rooms are 10 times the size of any normal room in the States and the service is great. First, we went on a city tour por bus and visited Casa Rosada, la Catedral Metropolitana, y the cemeterio de la familia de Eva Perón. Lunch was amazing at this restaurante called La Bistecca en Puerto Madero. This place was what we would call all-you-can-eat/tenedor libre, but so much better because the food is so rico/great. As great as lunch seemed, I accidentally tried octopus for the first time, thinking it was chicken, and almost threw up when someone told me what it actually was. This is bound to happen in a foreign country, and if you're wondering, I didn't like the octopus. Eww! Anything that has antennas or tentacles really grosses me out, and I'm not a seafood kind of person. After lunch we shopped around the city for a few hours and went out that night to this lounge that was built to look like a desert cave and had pictures of Indiana Jones hanging everywhere.
On Saturday we went to the official museum/mansion of Eva Perón. Her life was incredible and so were her clothes- all custom made from Europe. She did a lot of good things for the poor and sadly her life was cut short at33. Her coffin has been housed in 4 different countries and now is back in Arg. After the museum we went to my favorite place of all in BA- Boca. Boca is this pueblo on the far side of Buenos Aires that has building painted with bright rainbow colors. There are tango shows in the street and at any nearby cafe. The estadio/stadium of Boca Juniors fútbol team is here too. I love the feel of this place and there was even a small feria/tents of the artisans. That night we went to a tango show at a super elegant restaurante in Puerto Madero called Madero Tango. The show was amazing and had professional dancers and musicians. Buenos Aires is the birthplace of tango and to see one of the best shows in the city was an awesome experience for all of us. The featured dancer looked EXACTLY like Barbie- meaning too much plastic surgery for such a young girl, unfortunately this is common is BA.
On Sunday we packed and visited San Telmo, a place that hosts a feria cada Sunday. This feria was huge and you could hardly make you way through the streets because they were so full of people. I bought so many gifts here for friends/family and one thing in particular that I am so proud of- a real leather jacket, that cost less than 100 (US) dollars. Buen suerte! So many artisans. After that we went to el museo en Recoleta ,full of Argentine art. Upon leaving here, one girl in our group said a sweet goodbye to a boy that she met over the weekend. He actually met her a half hour later at the airport to say goodbye again, and now wants to visit her this week in Córdoba- again. It was a bit chistoso because we spotted him frantically running around the airport trying to find our friend, and after a few minutes of watching we decided to lend a hand and point him in the right direction.
The flight back was short and it felt good to be back. Buenos Aires is an amazing city and you MUST visit if you come to Argentina. TANGO-AMOR-AMIDSTAD
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